Batman Beyond is very dear to me, it may not of been as good as Batman the Animated series, but the animation was good, it show a generic but cool future and most important It was never afraid to go to very dark places and it gave us what for me is the best depiction of an older Bruce Wayne.

Return of The Joker has all the things that made the series great and then some, is fun, dark and very touching.

I found it a little hard to warm up to Batman Beyond, the TV series, as the future it depicted seemed cliched, and the villains were not on par with the traditional Batman rogues gallery, although having an elderly Bruce Wayne mentoring a younger, wilder replacement did make up part way for its shortcomings. Luckily, for this straight-to-video feature, the greatest of Batman's rogues is mysteriously brought back from the dead, and it's up to Terry McGinnis/Batman to figure out how and why - with Bruce Wayne's reluctant assistance - leading to some rather satisfying storytelling where an intriguing, if not effectively disturbing flashback that is central to the mystery, is one of the film's greatest hooks. The animation itself…

Who doesn’t love Batman?! He’s one of the best characters ever created. Whether he’s animated or live-action, he’s still great. In Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker, we get not one, but two Batmen (Batmans?) on their quest to make Gotham a safe place once again.

We see Gotham all “future-d” up as the movie takes place nearly 40 years after the events of the New Batman Adventures series. Bruce Wayne is no longer the Batman who goes around saving the people of Gotham. Instead, we get Terry McGinnis, a young man who has become the newest Dark Knight in Gotham. However, after Batman’s greatest adversary, The Joker, returns, Terry must continue the legacy of Bruce Wayne and rid Gotham…

I've always enjoyed the series Batman Beyond for what it was, but I never saw it as anywhere near as good as Batman:The Animated Series. Beyond was a good show, but BTAS was terrific. However, this film is very much a step up from the show and is just as good as BTAS. This would have worked very well as a live action film, but the animation looks slick. The story is suspenseful and funny with a very twists that keep you involved. Great action. Great music. Fantastic voice work, especially by Mark Hamill's return as The Joker. If Batman Beyond was good, this is incredible. One of the most underrated Batman films.

It's kind of hard to evaluate a movie like this, because it's clearly made for audiences of the TV show, and its story and dialog make a lot of assumptions based on that. If you've never seen Batman Beyond, you just have to catch on as you go who Terry McGinnis is and how he became Batman, or that Bruce Wayne has spent the last few years working to reclaim control over his family's company. These are not unreasonable assumptions to make, but there are enough of them that Return of The Joker is clearly not intended for general audiences.

It doesn't faze me, because I have a working understanding of that show (even if I've only seen about a…

Return of the Joker is a very strong entry in the much-missed DC Animated Universe, and for my money a pretty strong candidate for Mark Hamill's best work in the role. The Joker is pure, horrifying, poisonous evil here. Everything he touches he corrupts or destroys, and he's not just well aware of this, he downright revels in it. If Heath Ledger's Joker was out to prove that humanity was as rotten as he was, and Jack Nicholson's Joker was a possessive, misogynist letch, Hammil's Joker in Return is just out to hurt as many people as badly as possible and then revel in their fear. He's a wittier, better dressed Michael Meyers/The Shape as it were, a monster who…

Batman Beyond is very dear to me, it may not of been as good as Batman the Animated series, but the animation was good, it show a generic but cool future and most important It was never afraid to go to very dark places and it gave us what for me is the best depiction of an older Bruce Wayne.

Return of The Joker has all the things that made the series great and then some, is fun, dark and very touching.

I've been in a Batman mood lately, as I've been playing Batman: Arkham City for the first time since a few days (a damn good videogame so far, if anyone is wondering what I think about it), so expect a few reviews of Batman(-related) animated films in the next week or two.

Well...Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker is better than the awkward mess that was the The Dark Knight Returns adaptation(s) - but then again almost anything Batman-related is (let the hate commence) - although consider me somewhat underwhelmed by what is often considered to be one of the better animated Batman films out there. I'm not a fan of this bland-looking futuristic Batman anyway, but it also seems…

I found it a little hard to warm up to Batman Beyond, the TV series, as the future it depicted seemed cliched, and the villains were not on par with the traditional Batman rogues gallery, although having an elderly Bruce Wayne mentoring a younger, wilder replacement did make up part way for its shortcomings. Luckily, for this straight-to-video feature, the greatest of Batman's rogues is mysteriously brought back from the dead, and it's up to Terry McGinnis/Batman to figure out how and why - with Bruce Wayne's reluctant assistance - leading to some rather satisfying storytelling where an intriguing, if not effectively disturbing flashback that is central to the mystery, is one of the film's greatest hooks. The animation itself…

It's kind of hard to evaluate a movie like this, because it's clearly made for audiences of the TV show, and its story and dialog make a lot of assumptions based on that. If you've never seen Batman Beyond, you just have to catch on as you go who Terry McGinnis is and how he became Batman, or that Bruce Wayne has spent the last few years working to reclaim control over his family's company. These are not unreasonable assumptions to make, but there are enough of them that Return of The Joker is clearly not intended for general audiences.

It doesn't faze me, because I have a working understanding of that show (even if I've only seen about a…

Saw this first when I was a baby teenager, before I'd seen any other Batman stuff. Loved it. Then I watched it earlier this year while very, very drunk. Loved it! Felt validated in my carrying around all that love. Watched it recently with two friends who don't have much patience for exposition. Still loved it but realized it had a lot of exposition. Still my favourite Batman movie, The Joker is neat!